It's lucky you have other cutters, I would have to go out and buy another one if that happened to me!
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It's lucky you have other cutters, I would have to go out and buy another one if that happened to me!
I got a DH funny for ya! When DH and I got together, I bought one of the silly can openers where you just push a button and it travels around the can for you. Worked great for a while, then would not work anymore, so I bought a cheap mechanical one. It worked for a few days then it quit working also. I went through about seven can openers, and everyone worked perfect when new, but within a few days they would not work anymore. I was beginning to think they are all made of pot metal or something....then one day I was making spaghetti and DH offered to open the cans for me. I said sure. After he went back to sit in front of the TV, I tried to open the can of chopped olives he missed. The stupid can opener didn't work anymore! What the? So I called DH back in the kitchen to show him, and he tried it. It worked just fine for him. Arrrrg! That is when I decided to watch him open a can. Light bulb moment! Duh, he is left handed, and everytime he used a new can opener, he was holding it so tight, that he actually bent the can opener into a lefty model! I gave him his own lefty opener and now my can opener works great! Lol! Men, can't live without them, and it is illegal to shoot them! lol!
If you always do, what you have always done, The results never change. Change is the wings you give yourself.
That's when I would raid my husbands tool box for vice grips and handle that stubborn nut.
I had one of those pliers like to put snaps on , well I couldn't get it to do right and asked DH to see if he could get the snap on . Well, he bent it !!! He held it so tight it just twisted ! Never to be used again!! !LOL
Yes, The vice grips worked, just don't like using the Friskers cutter. Have to remember to close it.Originally Posted by Tartan
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Try turning tighter then the undo way. I live alone and get very annoyed when people at classes tighten my cutter after borrowing saying " it was loose".
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So you have pliers in your tool kit? Use it but be careful not to pinch yourself. froggyintexas
shoot, i have to get pliers to open my husbands new eye drops!!
Brought mine in to the guys at work. Two seconds with a plier. Makes them feel useful
I took a quilting class and the instructor told us that the cutter nut should not be real tight. It needs to be loose enough for the blade to turn properly. It works better a little loose.
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